Well I finally got a dipole up in the room here yesterday. just did a short QSO with someone 12 miles away S5 (not bad IMO since the dipole is inside) sadly when i key up my wifi card shuts totally off :(
and the 430 is going to have to be re-aligned. readout showed 28.305 but was at 28.304.85. also fan on the heatsink didnt come on in x-mit (got to read a bit more on that not sure if is should or only dose when warm)
good note. stock mic, wonderful audio got to love these old kenwoods
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Gotta love those digital readouts. How did we ever survive when our frequency readout was a series of nominally 1 Kc. hashmarks between 2 larger numbers?Originally Posted by W2IBC
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
And rigs drifted so much over the course of a long rag chew that it was never much more than a rough estimate to begin with! ;)
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Crystal markers worked, but digital is better.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I wonder about that when we obsess over .15 Khz.
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. — GARY LLOYD
The nation we live in is the nation we have built by design, each successive generation raising the wall of tyranny a little higher. - Chris Griffin
5.3 ppm offset! Not too awfully bad I guess. TCXO timebases could be worse.
is not bad per say. wouldnt mind getting it better tho.
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Is the display an actual frequency counter? What process did you do to find out that this unit was 5.3 ppm off frequency? What is the frequency reference?
guy up the road has a 718 thats where he said i was actually at. meh
anyway, i still have to check it out make sure everything is really up to par. i noticed a few off things about it. when AM mode is selected 1 of 2 things happen 1. display goes out no RX at all, or 2 display stays but all you will get is noise.
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In previous lives, I have designed precision reference oscillators. I have kicked around the idea of designing my own hammy style oven oscillator for commercial use. The company i work for now has a new crystal design that would be kick ass for a fairly low power crystal oven oscillator. But I have no idea if the market would have that kind of demand to make it worth my while.
Whuddya think? Right now, you or your buddy are probably off by a total of 5.3 ppm more or less. I could probably get that down to better than 0.1 ppm from -20C to +55C for 10 years.
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